beyond a reasonable doubt and they have the gonna do with the judge instructs. that s so well put and fascinating. you talked about someone who shared the former president s 2016 campaign. not. nobody ballots turned to these trials investigations from three prosecutors and four probes, at least in your day, hush money scheme that we ve been following. special counsel smith both overseeing the classified documents probe and the probe into the coup, and there is what everyone has been talking about lee recently, georgia s d.a. reconvening a grand jury in that long running into election interference probe. this is on president. i examined in fort jurisdictions that occurred before, during and after his presidency. the trials for at least some of these indictments will likely occur as trump is trying to win the presidency again during the campaign as we re just discussing. and by election day, there may be at least one jury that has
right now we re keeping a very close eye on the courthouse in atlanta where a grand jury is working overtime hearing testimony in the 2020 election interference probe. this as the trump team says it expects charges imminently. now to a cnn exclusive. nearly a dozen republican appointed federal legal officials are weighing in on the timing of donald trump s federal trial on election interference charges. the officials filing a formal brief in support of the early january 2024 trial date proposed by the federal special counsel jack smith. joining us now, one of the officials who signed on to that brief, retired federal appellate judge, j. michael ludig. thank you so much for joining us. the brief that you signed says in part, i m quoting, nothing less is at stake than the american experiment in democracy
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welcome back to state of the union. i m jake tapper. some shocking news just in this morning broken by cnn in georgia s election interference probe. prosecutors tell cnn that they can connect or sources tell cnn that prosecutors can connect a 2021 voting system breach to the top levels of donald trump s inner circle. sources tell cnn that atlanta prosecutors have text messages and emails that directly connect members of trump s legal team to the 2021 breach of a voting system in georgia s coffee county. this comes as a grand jury presentation in georgia is expected to start as soon as tomorrow, and that could potentially result in a fourth indictment for donald trump. republican presidential